Food container and ice-card holder



Jan. 6, 1925. 1,522,356

C. G. WORTHAM FOOD CONTAINER AND ICE CARD HOLDER Filed March 5l, 1922 Patented Jan. 6, 1925.

UNITED STATES CLIFFORD G. WORTHAM, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

FOOD CONTAINER AND ICE-GARD HOLDER.

Application filed March 31, 1922.

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CLrrronD Cf. VORTH- Air, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of St. Louis ind State of Missouri. have invented a certain new and useful Food Container and Ice-Card Holder, of which the following is aspecification.

Wy invention relates t0 a device for holding food and rotatably supporting an icecard.

The object of my invention is to provide a container which can be used upon the back porch of a building to receive bottled milk, cheese, butter and like food products to conf ceal the same from cats, dogs, vermin, etc.

until it is removed into the house.

Av further object of the invention is to provide one wall of the container with a sight opening and to rotatably support an 'ce-card to the rear thereof so that the markings of the card may be observed through the sight opening.

A further object of the invention is to provide a locking means for holding the rotatable ice-card in a predetermined position.

A still further object of the invention is to provide the sight opening with weathe:` shield.

A still further object of the invention is to provide the container with a hinged door having a milk card holder, a pencil holder and a resilient locking catch.

lVith the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel features of construction, arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter more fully described and finally pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

Referring to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification wherein like characters of reference denote similar parts throughout the several views:

Fig. 1, is a vertical sectional view of the container, with door open as taken on line 1-1 of big. 2.

Fig. 2, is a perspective view of the container with the door closed.

Fig. 3, is a detail showing the rotatable icocard.

Fig. 4, is a detail, in perspective, of the ice-card locking means.

ln carrying out the aim of my invention, l provide a metallic container comprising the bottom 1, side walls 2 and S, the front wall -l and the top 5.

Serial No. 548,517'.

(i indicates a suitable door which is hingedly connected as at 7, along one edge to the rear edge of the side wall 2. The door 6 is provided at its free side edge with a suitable resilient catch 8 to frictionally engage the rolled rear edge 9 of the side wall 25, as clearly shown in nig. 2.

The front wall 4t ofthe container is provided with a suitable sight opening 1() which is located near the upper end thereof. "l'he wall 4 is bent outwardly and suitably curved above the opening 10 to form a weather shield 11 for the opening, as is manifest.

12 indicates a suitable metallic disc or lplate which is tiXed to and rotatably carried by the pin io which is mounted in the front wall f1. The supporting pin 13 is provided with a suitable finger engaging` head ll which can be manipulated when it is desired to rotate the plate disc or card 12. The disc 12 has its edge turned over, as at 15 to reinforce the plate and to avoid a sharp edge. The edge 15 of the disc is provided with a plurality of notches, or slots 16 to receive the tongue 17 of a locking member 18 to hold the card from rotary displacement. The locking member 18 is slidably mounted in the guide member 19, which member is suitably iXed to the inner face of the side wall 2, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 8. The rear end of the locking member 1S is provided with an upturned end 2O to act as a handle for manipulating the slidable locking member, 18.

The front face of the disc 12 is provided with the characters such as 50, and '75 and the words No ice, so as to represent an ice-card. The inner face of the disc may also be provided with duplicate data so that the operator can tell when to stop turning the disc 12, The data on any one section upon the outer face of the disc 12 is observable through the sight opening 10. as is manifest. l

The rear edge of the top 5 of the container is provided with a weather shield 21 to overlap the upper edge of the door 3. The inner face of the door 6 is provided with a suitable spring leaf catch 22 which is fixed at one end, as at 28, to the door to hold a milk card when forced under the catch 22 so as to lie between the catch and the door.

24v indicates a suitable pencil holder which is suitably lixcd to the door G.

ing a suitable dista-nce above thefloor, sol

as to conceal food stuffs from cats, dogs, vermin, etc., and to indicate the amount' of ice desired, if any.

The many advantages of the herein described invention will readily suggest them selves to those skilled in the art to Which it appertains.

I do not Wish to be understood as having limited myself to the details of construe# tion shown and described, butdesire to have it understood that the invention I have shown in thedrawings is merely illustrative, as it is manifest that various minor chai'ig'es may be made in the exact coustructionand particular arrangement of parts Without departing from the spirit of my invention,

changes, or modifications as may fairly fall Within the scope of the appendedzclaiin when fairly construed.

What I claim is:

In combination With a receptacle having front and side Walls and a sight opening in the front Wall,`a rotatable data bearing disk engaging the inner surface of the Wall having the sightopening, said disk having notches formed in the peripheral edge, a slidable latch mounted upon the inner face of one of the side Walls of the receptacle, a

tongue carried by one end of said latch for' engagement in a predetermined peripheral disk notch to lock the disk against rotation, and an element carried by the disk to permit the manual rotation thereof from the interior of the receptacle.

, In testimony whereof, I have heremi'to signed my name to the specification.

CLIFFORD Gr. IVORTHAM. 

